Our Services

Editing

We specialize in readying your materials for publication according to the style, quality, and standards that you expect.

Proofreading

Our talented professionals have worked as proofreaders for several leading educational publishing companies as well as numerous online and print publishers.

We are dedicated to ensuring that your materials are error-free and an accurate reflection of the quality of your business.

Content Creation

We employ veteran educators, content experts, and writers who specialize in a variety of subjects to create high-quality content that meets your needs in an exemplary way.

Specialty areas include:

STEM: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Reading and Language Arts, including English learner (EL) development

Social Studies

Popular culture articles

Website content

Additional Services

We can handle virtually any content creation.

Here are a few of our other services:

Correlating content to national and state educational standards

Checking functionality of digital content

Fact-checking

Indexing

Style guide creation

Our Team

Susie Karya

Co-Founder

With over 15 years of experience in publishing, Susie has played a role in all facets of the product development process, from the creation of manuscript through final proofs. Susie uses her experience as a teacher of English as a foreign language (TEFL) as a basis for writing ELL materials for numerous educational products, and she has written mainstream student and teacher material for several reading and language arts programs.

Jessica Melfi

Co-Founder

Jessica lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and four young children. She holds a B.A. in English from Marietta (Ohio) College and an M.A. in English from Clemson University. Jessica spent the majority of her publishing career editing textbooks for educational publishers McGraw-Hill Education and Zaner-Bloser before joining forces with Susie to form Longbourn Editorial Services—a dream they have long discussed and finally made reality!

In addition to editing, Jessica enjoys teaching writing courses at a local university, exploring the Buckeye state, and cheering for her Cleveland Indians.

Clients of All Sizes

We consider all projects, regardless of size. We are comfortable working with the world’s largest educational publishers or solopreneur startups.

McGraw Hill Education

Zaner-Bloser

Ohio State University Publishing

University of Dayton Publishing

APH Press

ActivityConnection.com

Testimonials

I worked with Longbourn on an extremely complex project, and I am still in awe of the impressive project management and meticulous editing I saw consistently throughout. Their work was high-quality, prompt, and executed with the utmost of care; I cannot recommend Longbourn enthusiastically enough.

Tess Stevens

Senior Academic Designer, StudySync

As an online company producing more than 400 pages of new content each month, we rely on the editing and writing expertise of Longbourn Editorial Services to help ensure the excellence of all our finished products. In the eight years they have worked with us, we have been consistently satisfied and impressed with their work in all areas of writing and editing and would recommend them without reservation.

Nancy Ewald

Chief Content Officer and Founder, ActivityConnection.com

As the editor of a small press, I rely heavily on outside vendors to help me address all facets of product development and production. When Longbourn is on one of my projects, I can depend on that work being completed reliably, well, and on time.

Larry Marotta

Executive Editor, APH Press

Hiring Susie was like cloning myself. She and her team did the quality of work I’d have done if I’d had the time. The work she and her team did was meticulous and did not require the rework that is common with many vendors. Longbourn is the best I have ever worked with.

Beth Sundermeyer Van Houten

Associate Academic Designer, McGraw-Hill Education

Longbourn Editorial Services has been a standard for us for quite some time. We can always count on their accuracy and also their honest assessment of tasks and timelines. That is extremely important. I don’t want a group that says they can do anything and then under delivers. I want a group that I can trust. When they say they can complete something, I know I can count on them to be on time, thorough, and accurate.

McGraw-Hill Education has partnered with Longbourn Editorial on a range of projects for a variety of services–writing, editing, proofreading, and developing correlations to national and state standards. MHE relies upon the experienced and trusted staff of Longbourn to provide high-quality, professional work that never fails to meet both our deadlines and our expectations.